Valdosta's thin blue line, as police are called, may not be as thin at the end of the day.
On Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Friday, the Municipal Court staff is treating city police to 15 dozen doughnuts and cinnamon rolls. That comes to 180 sugar-glazed and sticky snacks, and nobody can eat just one.
The calories notwithstanding, buying doughnuts for police officers may enforce the stereotype.
Besides that, this is the South and I've seen a lot more cops at Bojangle's and Hardee's - both of which have excellent biscuits - than at doughnut shops....

Jason Rogers of Waycross is nearing the end of a cross country bicycle ride, swim and run that he calls tri4mattie. He'll spend Wednesday night in Waycross, swim Laura S. Walker Lake near Waycross Thursday morning and ride U.S. 1 to Jacksonville and run three miles to the beach.

Jason Rogers of Waycross expects to reach St. Louis today and Jacksonville by Sept. 19 in his bicycle ride from Seattle to raise money for Wolfson Children's Hospital and a foundation to help the families of children being treated for cancer.

Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy died this morning at 93. He will be remembered for his Christianity, his stores Sunday closings and his views that same sex relationships are not Biblical. But the thing that many of us will remember is how he devoted time and money to provide stable homes for foster children.

An Alabama family is celebrating after killing a 15-foot, 1,000-pound alligator. It's a new state record for legally killed alligators in Alabama and some birds will survive as a result, but it would be nice that big gator had been allowed to keep growing.

BRUNSWICK, GA. | The flag on the Good Ship Lollipop is at half mast.
Shirley Temple Black died Monday night.
During the Great Depression, she was a child star who danced and sang cheerfully in a series of movies. Some people who were fortunate enough to scrape together the few coins needed for a movie said she gave them confidence that things were going to be all right. And eventually, things were....

In Southeast Georgia, we suffered through a virtual winter storm. It never really happened, but we got the winter weather watch, then the warnings and then kids home from school for two straight days with no snowman building material in the front yard.

WAYNESVILLE, GA. | Randy Highsmith has always liked history, including his family’s. After learning he had ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War, he applied for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.

We are winning the battle against cigarettes. It’s also been about 50 years since the surgeon general’s report that smoking causes lung cancer. The smoking population has dropped since from 43 percent to about 18 percent.

BRUNSWICK | With his comments on gays "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson may have lost some followers, but he probably gained more than he lost.
A&E placed Robertson on an indefinite hiatus and his family was at first silent, which caused me to question whether the money and stardom had gotten to them. A posting on their duckcommander.com website shows they are firmly behind their father and his beliefs.
The posting says:...

Sam McNair, a senior at Duluth High School near Atlanta, says it was just an innocent hug.
But now McNair has been suspended for the rest of the year for walking up behind a woman teacher and wrapping her in an embrace, as it was reported in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog. One of McNair's friends has started a national petition drive to get him reinstated. Otherwise he won't graduate on time.
McNair's mother says they're a family of huggers and that it was just a warm, friendly gesture from her son....

There’s a granite Jefferson Davis memorial and museum in Irwinville that almost went the way of the Confederacy. Jan Gentry and Allison Ross, whose family donated the land, had used social media to put out the word that the site could close for lack of funding, said Joey Whitley, chairman of the Irwin County Commission.

The worst news I’ve heard recently is that the number of unmarried households is at record levels. I think the report said the majority of couples living together aren’t married. I couldn’t confirm that, but if we aren’t there yet, we’re headed that way on a bullet train.

Diane Roberson has waited with the other spouses of the 848th Engineer Company, a Georgia National Guard unit based in Douglas. Roberson heads the 848th’s Family Readiness Group, which sees after the needs of those at home.

You get used to things in life. People who never thought they could sleep in a house too close to the highway now can’t sleep without the sounds of cars and trucks thundering past. We’ve grown accustomed to the horror of a slain president, thousands dying as a pair of towers fell in New York and the slaughter of innocents around the world.

Todd Rhodes had a choice. He was a lieutenant with the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan police and an assistant pastor at First African Baptist Church. The senior pastor had followed a path marked clearly by his father. He is Thurmond Tillman, the son of E.C. Tillman.